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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Students Cite Evidence from Text

Citing evidence from a text is a big deal in Common Core and in Constructed Response Testing. I introduced some third graders to this idea a few weeks back as they were learning about genres. Students read an excerpt from "Tops and Bottoms", and then wrote a formulaic response to it. One student wrote:

"Tops and Bottoms" is a fantasy text. Fantasy storys include elements that are impossible. For example, the athr rote "I'm hungry," Bear said.

This author of this three-sentence text response did several things:

Made a claim: Determined the genre of the text.

Described the genre.

Cited evidence from the text to support the claim.

The student showed me:

That he understands the genre of fantasy.

That he can apply his knowledge of genre to a text.

What he applies regarding grammar and word knowledge.

That he can reference an anchor chart ("...include elements that are impossible").